Connecticut western news., 1887-09-21
COUNT MITKIEWICZ TALKS.
The Effect of the Concessions Ob.
 tained from China.

Count Mitkiewcz, while in Philadelphia re- gently, remarked that he did not care to enter into newspaper discussion but added: s'What is the meaning of all this talk about myself and the plans of the syndicate ? It means that the Bell Company, who through Hub- Sard, the father-ir law of Bell, were trying to get these ve concessions now granted to Wharton Barker and his syndicate, are grasp ing like drowning men at straws, and are do- ing all in their power to upset the scheme. It cannot be done. They can no more restrain Viceroy Lii from manufacturing telephones or what he wants in China than they could stop the course of Niagara. MT. Barker has stolen no ones money, has stolen no ones brains. He can get, Bell to the contrary notwith- standing The grant is really Chinese form of patent, forbidding any one else from manufacturing like article in the em- pire. The new accusations are only part of 8 great scheme in which England, Frame, the Bell Telephone Company and the Western Union are joined to defeat the Barker syndi- cate and obtain the franchises for themselves
 ''The obtaining of this franchise" continued MitkiewicZ means the commercial and inan- cial separation of Great Britain and China; The gravity of the situation is fully recognized in diplomatic circles, and the endeavors made to undermine the decree confirm the matters beyond doubt. Hitherto the banks of Shang- hai and Hong Kong have controlled the bank ing system of the empire, and England, through
 
 The so-called American institutions have not been American. They have been against it. This decree means more than mere banks o1 telephone systems. It looks to the full com. mercial union of China and America. The Viceroy Li who is learned and brilliant man, and who is thoroughly acquainted with America, has decided to break down all barriers, and, moreover, choose Americans as above all to whom he would grant such val uable franchises. China is secured, as she is k<h 1,,1f pie of this country will soon wake up to the magnitude of the plan. Americans once shed their blood to free themselves from English rule; but now, as you see, some are trying to forge all the tighter the English letters on China. To the exclusion of whom? Why, themselves. In the great commercial city of Tien Tsin, in the province of Pee-Chee-Lee, in which Pekin, the capital, is also situated the representatives of the Barker syndicate were approached by English capitalists, who offered them f3Oo, 900 if they would their in: terest in the syndicate. The answer was, Not all the money in the Bank of England will buy an interest," Again, counsel for the Bell Company waited two weeks in Washington to meet me and see whether they could get 8 fOothold. The same answer was made to them.
 ssTo speak more specifically of Turnbull, ] say he is crank, and has been so considered He has continually flooded the State Depart. ment with letters which have been ignored There are affidavits in the Baltimore courts tt prove that he denied that there was any con- spiracy in which he and Count Mitkiewic: were interested in former years. I worked III the Turnbuu Telephone Company, but it fel through and all negotiations ended. Nov Turnbull comes up and tries to get into the whirl again, and says: Where Is my share Our enemies have done everything to hurt us Every article traducing me has been sent to the Chinese Legation, hoping to thus influence them, but it is of no avail. Two years ago i would have been felony for Chinamen to bt perial sanction has been bestowed on such { course, all that remains to be done to cons rm mate the grant of franchise that opens up { nation of 400, 900, 900 people to modern idea, and civilization is to elect tho officers of the company and arrange all details, and that if what the imperial envoy cano here to accom- plish"